A thousand paper cuts : US Empire and the bureaucratic life of war
Anjali Nath
Bok · Engelsk · 2025
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| Opplysninger | Paper Tigers and Imperial Secrets -- Secrecy Is for Losers: Freedom of Information and Cold War Politics -- How to Free Information: Counterinsurgency and Radical Transparency -- On Redacted Documents and the Visual Politics of Transparency -- Paper and the Art of Censorship -- Letters from Guantánamo. - "A Thousand Paper Cuts provides a cultural history of transparency and visual analysis of paper redaction in a racialized landscape of war from the Cold War to the War on Terror. Anjali Nath considers the redaction of information in US government documents made available to the public through Freedom of Information Acts (FOIA) requests to expose an archive of state violence against racialized subjects deemed a threat to the country. Nath contends that these redactions form an aesthetics of information comparable to other militarized ways of seeing, including aerial views, infographics and data visualization, and police body camera footage which constitute imperial knowledge forms that are at once highly visible and totally inscrutable. Redacted documents can only be made legible through activists' long-running efforts to make public the state violence cloaked within them. Tracing the historical emergence of FOIA from its inception during the Cold War through the Bush-era torture memos to contemporary artists of color who turn an aesthetics of redaction in on itself, Nath brilliantly maps the formation of the security state and its racialized visual politics"--
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| ISBN | 9781478029410. - 9781478032854
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